...M. Cristina Alcalde Abstract In this essay, I draw on my fieldwork in Lima, Peru to critically explore the power relationships within my own feminist research and practice and illustrate what feminist research in one's own society might include. I pay special attention to my roles as academic...

...Tara Daly Abstract This essay showcases the work of Claudia Coca, a contemporary pop artist from Lima, Peru whose paintings and drawings critique the links between race, gender, and class in a decolonial, transnational frame. First, the essay explores the way Coca celebrates the Peruvian chola...

... started local groups which are linked regionally through RELAT (Red De Escritoras Latinoamericanas), based in Peru and modeled on the kind of regional consciousness-raising networks that have had such success on issues of reproductive rights and violence against women. 9 In India, we are engaged...

... accents are identified as being aligned with the target language and the value associated with that target language. For example, the Latina Peruvian’s English accent was a source of negative judgment in U.S. contexts but was lauded in Peru. Similarly, only the faculty members who were teachers of Spanish...

... Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS M. CRISTINA ALCALDEis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southwestern University. Her areas ofresearch include Peru and Latinas in the U.S. as well as gender violence, race, and class. BEAUTYBRAGGis an assistant professor who...

... of home in all ofits meanings. "Going Home: A Feminist Anthropologist's Reflections on Dilemmas of Power and Positionality in the Field," by M. Cristina Alcalde, explores the dilemmas, rewards, and difficulties of conducting feminist research in her birthplace of Lima, Peru. Alcalde reflects on how her...

... project on the reconfiguration of civil society under conditions of partial democratization and neoliberalism in Latin America. Myanalysis is based on fieldwork and on interviews with more than two hundred feminist activists and public officials conducted in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru between 1993...

... of the Pacific—a territorial conflict between Bolivia, Peru, and Chile— hindered the United States’ ability to conduct foreign commerce as well as threatened the territorial integrity of the Americas (Bastert 1959 : 379). These two seemingly unrelated events would eventually provide the strategic access points...

... Campbell (Costa Rica), Andreia Beatriz dos Santos (Brazil), Francia Marquez (Colombia), and Victoria Santa Cruz (Peru), who theorize profoundly about gender, politics, and liberation, is relatively unknown outside of their home countries. The exclusion of Latin American Black women from the Black feminist...

... the same time period demonstrates that, while the rates of femicide in Cuba were low compared to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Brazil, they were on par with or exceeded the rates of femicide in Peru, Chile, and Panama. Next, the National Gender Equity Poll (NGEP) that was undertaken...

... Campbell. 1 A couple of evenings later I heard the same two poems dramatically recited by a Panamanian activist from Washington, DC. I had heard these poems recited at other meetings in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, and New York before largely Afro-descendant or multi-ethnic audiences...

... in Cuba are greater than or on par with those of Chile, Panama, and Peru. Similarly, in his essay “Between Protest and Politics: Black Lives Matter Movement(s) for Black Lives,” Robert J. Patterson argues that the Black Lives Matter movement pursues a much more radical Black liberation project than...

... you are living in Ecuador, or Peru, et cetera. "Samashispanas."It is both language- and gender-specific. It is hispanaas opposed to hispana/hambroer "Hispanic." We accept that in Latin America, we do refer to ourselves as Hispanics, but not here. Does that make a little sense? And then "Latina...

... democracia y la defensa de los derechos de la mujer . Lima, Peru : Acción Femenina Peruana . Wieringa Saskia . 2002 . Sexual Politics in Indonesia . London : Palgrave Macmillan . ...

... in there somewhere-of course-and what Kittywould think about a daughter who could kill-and thus survive-in the wild. KittyHart and Anne Frank were there. And the five-yearold girlchild in Peru. And Doreen Paxton. (n5) Clare envisions possibly gaining respect from Miss Mattie and Kitty;her rebellion is also an effort...

..., a queer Latino/a organization in Austin, Texas, has created a queer version of lotería . In a smart rhetorical move, they recast “ El Negrito ” as San Martin de Porres, a popular Black saint from Peru and renamed the card “ El Santo ” (the saint) ( ALLGO, 2002 ). 10 The signifying system...

... rhetorical move, they recast "ElNegrito"as San Martin de Porres, a popular black saint from Peru and renamed the card "El Santo" (the saint) (ALLGO,2002). 12. See de Lauretis (1994, 81-142) for her recasting of the primal scene as a site of lesbian desire, and Emma Perez (1999, no-14) and Calvo (2001, 74...

... constitute a cultural politics that is central to these Afrofeminist political practices in Peru, as we saw in the case of the Casa Cultural del Chontaduro in Colombia and the The Marcha das Mulheres Negras contra o Racismo, a Violencia e pelo Bern Viverin Brazil. AN ew Generation of Afrofeminism and New...

... to forward their goals of racial uplift. In this assertion, Gates diminishes the importance of the cultural and historical politics of Black visual resistance. Little known Black visual practices, for example those restricted by colonial sumptuary laws of the U.S., Surinam, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Peru...